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Color tab 
1.Color Matching:  Auto or Manual
Control over the color output of your printer may be 
performed automatically, or for advanced control, by 
manual adjustment. The automatic setting will be 
appropriate in most cases. The other options in this 
window only become visible when you select a choice 
other than Auto. For grayscale printing, the printer runs 
at the fastest print speed (approx. 20ppm) and all pages 
are printed in black and white.
2.Color Mode
You can choose from a range of color matching options, 
depending on the image source for your document. For 
example, a photograph taken on a digital camera might 
require different color matching from a business graphic 
created in a spreadsheet application. Again, for most 
general purpose use, Auto is the best choice.
3.Brightness and Saturation
Printed output may be made lighter or darker, or the 
colors made more saturated and vibrant as required.
4.Black Finish
Black areas may be printed using 100% cyan, magenta 
and yellow, giving a more glossy appearance (composite 
black), or using only black toner (true black), giving a 
more matte appearance. Choosing the Auto setting allows 
the driver to make the most appropriate choice based on 
image content.
5.Default
Click the Default button to restore the default printer 
settings.
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Setting from Windows Control Panel
When you open the driver properties window directly from 
Windows, rather than from within an application program, a 
somewhat more extensive range of settings is provided. 
Changes made here will generally affect all documents you 
print from Windows applications, and will be remembered from 
one Windows session to the next.
General tab  
1.Features
This area lists some of the main features of your printer.
2.Printing Preferences
This button opens the same windows for items which can 
be set from within application programs, as described 
earlier in “Printing preferences in Windows applications” 
on page 26. Changes you make here, however, will 
become the new default settings for all Windows 
applications.
3.Print Test Page
This button prints a test page to check that your printer is 
working.
Advanced tab    
1.Available From
You can specify which times of day your printer will be 
available.
2.Priority
Indicates current priority, from 1 (lowest) to 99 (highest). 
Highest priority documents will print first.
3.Spool print documents so program finishes printing faster
Specifies that documents should be spooled (stored in a 
special print file) before being printed. The document is 
then printed in the background, allowing your application 
program to become available more quickly.
4.Start printing after last page is spooled
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This specifies that printing should not start until the last 
page has been spooled. If your application program needs 
a lot of time for further computation in the middle of 
printing, causing the print job to pause for more than a 
short period, the printer could prematurely assume that 
the document has finished. Selecting this option would 
prevent that situation, but printing will be completed a 
little later, as the start is delayed.
5.Start printing immediately
This is the opposite choice to the one above. Printing 
starts as soon as possible after the document begins 
spooling.
6.Print directly to the printer
This specifies that the document should not be spooled, 
but printed directly. Your application will not normally be 
ready for further use until the print job is complete. This 
requires less disk space on your computer, since there is 
no spool file.
7.Hold mismatched documents
Directs the spooler to check the document setup and 
match it to the printer setup before sending the document 
to print. If a mismatch is detected, the document is held 
in the print queue and does not print until the printer 
setup is changed and the document restarted from the 
print queue. Mismatched documents in the queue will not 
prevent correctly matched documents from printing.
8.Print spooled documents first
Specifies that the spooler should favor documents which 
have completed spooling when deciding which document 
to print next, even if completed documents are lower 
priority than documents which are still spooling. If no 
documents have completed spooling, the spooler will 
favor larger spooling documents over shorter ones. Use 
this option if you want to maximise printer efficiency. 
When this option is disabled the spooler chooses 
documents based only on their priority settings.
9.Keep printed documents
Specifies that the spooler should not delete documents 
after they are completed. This allows documents to be re-
submitted to the printer from the spooler instead of 
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printing again from the application program. If you use 
this option frequently it will require large amounts of disk 
space on your computer.
10.Enable advanced printing features
Specifies whether advanced features, such as page order 
and pages per sheet, are available, depending on your 
printer. For normal printing keep this option enabled. If 
compatibility problems occur you can disable the feature. 
However, these advanced options may then not be 
available, even though the hardware might support them.
11.Printing Defaults
This button provides access to the same setup windows as 
when printing from applications. Changes made via the 
Windows Control Panel become the Windows default 
settings.
12.Separator Page
You can design and specify a separator page that prints 
between documents. This is particularly useful on a 
shared printer to help each user find their own documents 
in the output stack.
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Printing From Mac
Mac OS 9
Choosing Printing Options
Use the print dialog to choose your printer and select options 
for how you want your document to print.
1.Open the document you want to print.
2.If you wish to change the paper size or page orientation, choose 
File > Page Setup.
3.Select File > Print.
4.Select your printer from the Printer pop-up menu.
5.If you wish to change any printer driver settings, select the 
necessary options in the print dialog. You can select more options 
from the Copies & Pages menu. “Changing the default print 
settings”  describes how to set printer driver options.
6.Click Print
Changing the default print settings
If you print a document and change the printer driver settings, 
these changes are only remembered for that particular 
document. To change the printer driver settings for all future 
print jobs:
1.Select Apple menu > Chooser.
2.Select your printer driver in the left-hand panel of the Chooser 
window.
3.Select your printer model in the right-hand panel of Chooser.
4.Click Print Preferences.   
5.Change Page Setup Preferences or Print Preferences as required.  
These new settings will be saved as the printer driver defaults.
Page Setup Options - General  
Paper
Choose the paper size that matches your document and the paper 
loaded in the printer. The paper margin is 1/6 inch (4.2 mm) at all 
edges.
Orientation
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If using landscape, you can flip the orientation 180 degrees.
Reduce or Enlarge
Documents can be scaled up or down to fit on different paper 
sizes.
Page Setup Options - Layout   
Multiple pages can be shrunk and printed on a single sheet of 
paper. For example, choosing 4-up will tile four of your 
documents pages across a single sheet of paper. 
You can control the order in which the documents are tiled and 
also choose to surround each document page with a border.
Page Setup Options - Custom Paper Size  
You can create and edit custom paper sizes. These appear in 
the paper size menu and can be selected just like any other 
paper size.
Print Options - General    
Copies
Enter the number of copies to print.
If Collate is selected, all the pages of the document print before 
the next copy prints.
Pages
Choose whether to print all the pages of your document or just a 
section of it.
Paper Source
Selects which paper tray to use for your print job.
Quality
Selects the print resolution.
The High Quality setting produces the best graphic images but it 
can take longer to print.
Photo Enhance
Use Photo Enhance to significantly improve quality when printing 
images. The printer driver analyses any photographic images and 
processes them to improve the overall appearance. This setting 
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setting.
Toner Saving
Toner saving uses less toner when printing your document. This 
is best suited to draft text documents as it lightens the print 
significantly.
Print Options - Print Control   
If you are using the Windows Print Control Server software to 
manage printers, enter your assigned user name and ID. This 
information is sent along with your print job and is recorded by 
the printer.
Print Options - Color   
Color mode
Color matching
 
COLOR MODEDESCRIPTION
Auto Color The driver selects the most 
appropriate color settings.
Advanced Color  Allows you to manually adjust color 
and black and white settings or select.
Grayscale Convert all colors to shades of grey.
COLORDESCRIPTION
Monitor (6500K) 
Perceptualoptimized for printing photos. Colors 
are printed with emphasis on 
saturation.
Monitor (6500K) Vivid optimized for printing photos, but 
with even more saturated colors.
Monitor (9300K) optimized for printing graphics from 
applications such as Microsoft Office. 
Colors are printed with emphasis on 
Lightness.
Digital Camera Results will vary depending on the 
subject and conditions the image 
was taken.
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Controls the way black is printed in color documents.
Composite Black (CMYK): Uses all 4 toner colors to represent 
black. Recommended for color photos.
True Black (K): Uses 100% black toner to represent black. 
Recommended for text and business graphics.
Brightness / Saturation
Increase Brightness for a lighter print. Modify saturation to 
change the strength (or purity) of color.
If the printed colors are too strong, reduce saturation and increase 
brightness. As a general rule, the saturation should be stepped 
down an equal amount to the increased brightness. For example, 
if you reduce saturation by 10, increase brightness by 10 to 
compensate.
Print Options - Layout    
Multiple pages can be shrunk and printed on a single sheet of 
paper. For example, choosing 4-up will tile four of your 
documents pages across a single sheet of paper. 
You can control the order in which the documents are tiled and 
also choose to surround each document page with a border.
Print Options - Options    
Media Weight
Select the thickness/type of paper in the printer. 
Its important to set this correctly as it affects the temperature at 
which the toner is fused to the paper. For example, if you are 
printing on regular paper, dont select Labels as this may cause 
toner smearing and paper jams.
Paper Size Check
Select Paper Size check if you want the printer to warn you when 
the document paper size is different from the paper in the printer.
sRGB The printer reproduces the sRGB 
color space. This might be useful if 
color matching from an sRGB input 
device such as a scanner or digital 
camera.
COLORDESCRIPTION
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load the correct paper and press ONLINE.
When this option is switched off, the printer uses the paper loaded 
in the selected tray regardless of the document size.
Feed Manually from Multi Purpose Tray
Select this if you want the printer to wait until you press the ON 
LINE button when feeding from the Multi Purpose Tray.
This can be useful if printing on envelopes.
Always Create 100% Black (K) Toner 
Select this if you want the printer to always use only black (K) 
toner when printing pure black (RGB = 0,0,0). 
This is effective even when Composite Black (CMYK) is selected in 
the color options.
Run Maintenance Cycle Before Printing
Depending on printing habits and usage patterns, running the 
maintenance cycle before printing may ensure the best possible 
print quality.
This feature uses the printers image drums and transfer belt; the 
life of these printer parts may be shortened if the maintenance 
cycle is run frequently.
Adjust Character Spacing
Select this if you are having problems with the spacing between 
characters when printing text. For example, spacing is too wide or 
characters appear printed over the top of each other.
This feature can slow down printing, so only use it if you are 
having problems.
Print Options - Watermark 
A watermark is typically faint text that is superimposed on a 
printed document. This can be used to indicate that the 
document is Draft or perhaps Confidential.
You can create watermarks in the printer driver. Select a font 
and modify the watermark size, position, color, brightness and 
angle.
Print Options - Information
Displays a summary of the current printer settings. The driver 
version is also displayed. This may be useful if you want to 
check the Oki website for a newer printer driver.
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Mac OS X
The information in this section is based on Mac OS X Tiger 
(10.4). Other versions such as Panther (10.3) and 
Jaguar(10.2) versions may appear slightly different, but the 
principles are the same.
Setting Printing Options
You can choose your printer and select options for how you 
want your documents to print from the Print dialog box.
To set your printer options:
1.Open the document you want to print.
2.To change the paper size or page orientation, select File > Page 
Setup.    
3.Close the Page Setup dialog box.
4.Select File > Print.
5.Select your printer from the Printer drop-down menu.
6.To change any printer driver settings, select the required options 
from the “Settings” drop-down menu. You can select more 
options from the Copies & Pages menu. For a description of these 
options, see “Print options - Copies & pages” .   
7.Click the Print button.
Saving Printing Options
You can save a set of printer driver options to use for future 
documents. 
1.Open the document you want to print.
2.To change the paper size or page orientation, select File > Page 
Setup.   
3.Select Save As Default from the Settings drop-down menu.
4.To save the current printer driver settings as a preset, select 
Save As from the Preset menu. 
5.Enter a name for your preset and click OK.
Changing the default printer and paper size
The following steps describe how to change your default 
printer and the paper size options.
1.Select Apple menu > System Preferences.
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